You are not here for the bar.
They have a small variety of offerings - most of which do not impress.
You are here to get drunk on the music, not the alcohol.
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Donau115 is one of the best post bop post free style jazz clubs in the world.
There are plenty of places to go in Berlin if you want to hear amazing Charlie-Parker-like or John-Coltrane-like jazz.
Donau115 is for people who think of that as old people's music.
The young and incredibly inventive people who get booked at this club know that Sun Ra has been dead for over 25 years.
What the kids are doing now will blow you away.
Like any other jazz club, they will book the occasional lunker.
Being improvisational means taking chances.
But when one of their highly trained, highly talented and highly sideways groups hit the sweet spot ...
And every night, someone usually does hit the sweet spot.
It is a sweet spot that you have never heard ever in your life.
Donau115 is where you go to learn what music could be
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